Six Crises: How the U.S. and China Coordinated Despite Strategic Rivalry

In this new video series, Carnegie’s Evan Feigenbaum talks in detail to six senior American decisionmakers who led the coordination with Beijing on some of the toughest—and indeed, some of the scariest—transnational problems the world has faced over the last two decades.

Stopping Ebola (2014)

Susan Rice

National Security Advisor, 2013–2017Ambassador to the United Nations, 2009–2013

Controlling Hydrofluorocarbons (2013)

John Podesta

Counselor to the President, 2014-2015White House Chief of Staff, 1998-2001

Preventing Contagion in the Global Financial Crisis (2008)

Hank Paulson

Secretary of the Treasury, 2006–2009

Attacking a Food Safety Crisis (2008)

Mike Leavitt

Secretary of Health and Human Services, 2005–2009Governor of Utah, 1993–2003

Fighting SARS (2003)

Tommy Thompson

Secretary of Health and Human Services, 2001–2005Governor of Wisconsin, 1987–2001

Ambassador and Special Representative on Global HIV/AIDS, 2002–2003Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Health and Science, 2001–2003

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